YouTube’s New Mobile Site

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

YouTube (Google) has released a new tantalising mobile web app version of its website aimed at modern mobile phones.

The old website was geared towards those clunky brick-like phones with the numeric keypads and the obscenely tiny screens. Now, however, phones are generally touch-based portable computers with ‘full internet’ and so a need for a more advanced website was satisfied with the release of this long overdue web app.

What is interesting is that the web application is enhanced for the iPhone(with a prompt telling you to save the site to the home screen). Apple has provided a native YouTube application on its iOS (and previous iPhone OS) since the very beginning and now it looks like YouTube wants to take control. After all, Apple’s native application is lacking many of the newYouTube features and hasn’t adapted to the changes on the site.

I prefer the stability and consistency of a native application, but YouTube’s new mobile site is wonderful.

It should be noted that it is not real HTML5 video at this point, despite what some blogs and news sources claim.

Tags: Apple, Browser, Google, Internet, iOS, iPhone, iPhone OS, iPod, iPod Touch, Mobile, Safari, Web, YouTube
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Mobile Phone Dead

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

My mobile phone has died on me, my primary communication method (other than face to face talking) has ceased to function.

It was partly my fault, it could have been any number of things that had happened over the weekend. My mobile was not loved, it didn’t have a good home and needless to say it was somewhat abused by myself. That said, there isn’t a charity to support abused mobile phones and I’m stuck here without it.

It was either the throwing it at the wall or letting my baby cousin suck on it that caused the demise of my technological enemy.

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Tags: Mobile, Phone
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